[TheForge] Hot box

Sat Jul 27 19:10:01 2002

Check the commercial ads in the paper for a 2nd hand pizza oven.

At 7/27/02 12:15 PM -0700, you wrote:
>How about a wild idea?
>Get an old Freezer (large) and put a couple of oven elements inside it after
>removing the guts, plastic, foam etc. from the inside of course.
>The steel freezer shell and door could make a decent box, and adding an oven
>element with controls should be fairly easy.
>Or, you could try to find an old commercial pizza oven!?!????
>Jim
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "GHS" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:11 AM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hot box
>
>
> > Dave, if you are looking for something
> > big, then maybe Mark Mondloch could give
> > us some insight, from his experiences in
> > building/maintaining the kilns for his
> > wife's pottery. You need lower temps for
> > sure, but his newer kiln is big enough
> > to walk into. The technology should be
> > applicable.
> >
> > Mike Graf
> >
> > Dave Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > I need/want to make a hot box or oven capable of around 500-600
> > > degrees.  How would you go about a project like this?  I'm assuming that
> > > you could install one or more electric oven heater elements.  But, would
> > > heat lamps work, since it's the piece that needs to get to that
>temperature
> > > more than the air and the walls?
> > >
> > > This would be for powder coating.  Would a soft flame propane burner
>(such
> > > as is used in a barbecue grill) under a diffuser plate work, or would
>the
> > > H2O by product of the flame present a problem in curing the powder coat?
> > >
> > > Any thoughts appreciated.
> > >
> > > Dave Brown
> > > Heritage Smithing
> > > Green Bay, WI
> > > ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
> > >
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